Asier Mendizabal
Eslabones (sintagmático y paradigmático), 2021
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Chestnut wood
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Tabakalera, 2021Plateau (sintagmático y paradigmático), 2021
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Aluminium
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Tabakalera, 2021Installation view: Incurvar. Un proyecto de Asier Mendizabal para el Museo Oteiza, 2018
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Photo: Museo OteizaLimbo (Diagonal), 2016
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Rubber and iron plate
18 x 41 x 40 cm
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Photo: Asier MendizabalLimbo (Lima), 2016
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Rubber and iron plate
8 x 40 x 60 cm
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Photo: Asier MendizabalIncurvar, 2018
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Two digital prints
Framed: 79 x 119 x 4 cm each. Ed. 1 + 1 AP
Photo: Roberto RuizUntitled (Benta Handi), 2009
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Installation view: Incurvar. Un proyecto de Asier Mendizabal para el Museo Oteiza, 2018
Photo: Museo OteizaAgoramaquia (Versión nº1), 2014
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Two rubber plates and iron structure
174 x 102 cm / 230 x 139 cm
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Photo: Roberto RuizAgoramaquia (Versión nº2), 2014
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Two rubber plates and iron structure
174 x 102 cm / 230 x 139 cm
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Photo: Roberto RuizAgoramaquia (el caso exacto de la estatua), 2014
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Installation view: "How to (...) things that don’t exist", São Paulo Biennial, 2014
Photo: Pedro IvoAgoramaquia (el caso exacto de la estatua), 2014
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Installation view: "How to (...) things that don’t exist", São Paulo Biennial, 2014
Photo: Pedro IvoAgoramaquia (el caso exacto de la estatua), 2014
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Installation view: "How to (...) things that don’t exist", São Paulo Biennial, 2014
Photo: Pedro IvoInstallation view: Concavitat, 2017, ProjecteSD, Barcelona
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Photo: Roberto RuizGeodesia y antropometría (vasijas), 2016
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Collage
83,5 x 64 cm.
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Photo: Roberto RuizGeodesia y antropometría (vasijas), 2016
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Collage
83,5 x 64 cm.
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Photo: Roberto RuizGeodesia y antropometría (vasijas), 2016
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Collage
Framed: 92 x 74 x 3 cm
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Photo: Roberto RuizInstallation view: Concavitat, 2017, ProjecteSD, Barcelona
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Photo: Roberto RuizSin título (cesta 3), 2015
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Concrete
46 x 21 x 21 cm
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Photo: Roberto RuizStilfragen (crania), 2016
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Concrete
20 x 20 x 20 cm
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Photo: Roberto RuizSin título (cesta 2), 2015
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Concrete
15 x 33 x 33 cm
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Photo: Roberto RuizInstallation view: Problemas de Estilo y Vasijas de Barro, 2016. Museo de Arte Precolombino Casa del Alabado Quito, Ecuador
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Photo: MAPCAInstallation view: Problemas de Estilo y Vasijas de Barro, 2016. Museo de Arte Precolombino Casa del Alabado Quito, Ecuador
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Photo: MAPCAInstallation view: A Singular Form, 2016. Secession, Vienna
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Photo: Oliver OttenschlaegerEl Proceso y el Azar V, 2014
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Chipboard and melamine
Measures table set up: 74 x 210 x 84 cm
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Woodcut (Modest imperative), 2013
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Xilography on paper, three parts.
Overall dimension: 134 x 282 x 7 cm
Ed. 5 + 1 AP
Photo: Roberto RuizUntitled (Forcola) #5 – Untitled (Forcola) #2 , 2013
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Digital prints on cotton paper
Framed: 106,5 x 79,5 x 5 cm each
Ed. 3 + 1 AP
Photo: Roberto RuizInstallation view: Asier Mendizabal, 2012, ProjecteSD, Barcelona
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Photo: Roberto RuizRotation (Moiré, Egin), 2012.
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Silkscreen
Framed: 115,5 x 156 x 5 cm
Ed. 9 + 3 AP
Photo: Roberto RuizRotation (Moiré, Egin), 2012. (Detail)
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Silkscreen
Framed: 115,5 x 156 x 5 cm
Ed. 9 + 3 AP
Photo: Roberto RuizRotation (Moiré, Rome), 2012
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Silkscreen
Framed: 115,5 x 156 x 5 cm
Ed. 9 + 3 AP
Photo: Roberto RuizRotation (Moiré, Rome), 2012. (Detail)
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Silkscreen
Framed: 115,5 x 156 x 5 cm
Ed. 9 + 3 AP
Photo: Roberto RuizSin título (Trama#4), 2012
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Two galvanized steel plates, gravure, magnets
Overall dimension: 256 x 110 x 6 cm
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Photo: Roberto RuizSin título (Trama#4), 2012. (Detail)
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Two galvanized steel plates, gravure, magnets
Overall dimension: 256 x 110 x 6 cm
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Photo: Roberto RuizPoint de capiton (Hodja), 2016
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Galvanized steel, inkjet print, PVC canvas, screws and magnets
140 x 100 x 56 cm
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Photo: Roberto RuizIllustration (illuminations du Trocadero), 2015
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Woodblock prints from illustrated press
Framed: 46 x 31 cm
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Photo: Roberto RuizIllustration (illuminations du Trocadero), 2015. (Detail)
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Woodblock prints from illustrated press
Framed: 46 x 31 cm
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Photo: Roberto RuizDas Ubekannte Spanien / España, tipos y trajes, 2012
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80 + 80 35 mm slide projection
Variable dimension
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Photo: Roberto RuizDas Ubekannte Spanien / España, tipos y trajes, 2012. (Detail)
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80 + 80 35 mm slide projection
Variable dimension
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Photo: Roberto RuizNot All that Moves is Red (Tangram) #3, 2012
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Sewn fabric
200 x 300 cm
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Photo: Roberto RuizNot All That Moves (Is Red), 2007
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Fabric, concrete and audio CD. Variable dimensions.
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Exhibition view: Not All That Moves (Is Red), Artis den Bosch, The Netherlands, 2007
Installation view: Asier Mendizabal, Raven Row, London, 2011
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Photo: Marcus J. LeithAuñamendi, 2006
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36 C-prints.
Framed: 31,5 x 42 cm each.
Ed. 3 + 1 AP.
Installation view: Asier Mendizabal, Raven Row, London, 2011
Photo: Marcus J. LeithKnow Your Rights, 2009
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Plasterboard and aluminium
55 x 260 x 240 cm
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Installation view: Asier Mendizabal, Raven Row, London, 2011
Photo: Marcus J. LeithLe Trou #2, 2009
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Tiles and styrofoam
90 x 60 x 25
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Installation view: Asier Mendizabal, Raven Row, London, 2011
Photo: Marcus J. LeithInstallation view: Asier Mendizabal, MNCARS, Madrid, 2011
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Photo: Román Lores & Joaquín CortésInstallation view: Asier Mendizabal, MNCARS, Madrid, 2011
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Photo: Román Lores & Joaquín CortésInstallation view: Asier Mendizabal, MNCARS, Madrid, 2011
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Photo: Román Lores & Joaquín CortésThe Staff That Matters (Six Steps), 2009
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Offset print cut-ots on paper. Framed, 96,5 x 72 cm
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Figures and Prefigurations (Divers, B. Munari, 1935), 2010
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Offset print cut-ots on paper. Framed, 96,5 x 72 cm
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La Ruota Dentata, 2009
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Concrete and iron, 170 x 390 x 230 cm
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Installation view: Koenraad Dedobbeleer/Asier Mendizabal, ProjecteSD, Barcelona, 2009
No Time For Love, 2000
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16mm b&w film loop projection, 16 mm projector, iron framework and PCV sheeting
Installation view: Asier Mendizabal, MACBA, 2008
Photo credits: Juanchi Pegoraro
No Time For Love, 2000. (Detail)
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16mm b&w film loop projection, 16 mm projector, iron framework and PCV sheeting
Installation view: Asier Mendizabal, MACBA, 2008
Photo credits: Juanchi Pegoraro
This Is The Way (Assemble), 2007
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Silkscreen. Framed, 70 x 50 cm each
Ed. 40 + 10 AP
Cinema, 1999
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PVC sheeting, board on wooden trestles, bottles of mineral water and glasses. Dimension variable
Installation view: Asier Mendizabal, MACBA, 2008
Photo credits: Juanchi Pegoraro
Biography
Born in Ordizia, Guipuzkoa, Spain, 1973
Lives and works in Bilbao, Spain and Stockholm, Sweden.
Asier Mendizabal’s work pays most attention to the relations between form, discourse and ideology and has been said to be related to the constructivist sculpture with its roots in the abstract utopia of the first decades of the 20th century. The question of the sign and its materiality and identification as a social and political emblem also has a place among the artist’s interests. Through sculpture, photography, video, textual or graphic works, Mendizabal gives a view on ideology based on the mise en scène of the concepts or structures shaped by it. The works by Mendizabal cannot be interpreted at first sight as they accumulate layers of meaning and sometimes refer to multiple ideas which are not of common knowledge. Whereas in some works a direct connotation in the recent history and reality of the Basque country can be read, in others he chooses referents which belong to historic or ideological legacies.
Selected Texts
- 2015Asier MendizabalDe trama y urdimbre, figura y fondo y otras analogías estructurales
- 2014Asier MendizabalWarp and Weft as Structural Metaphor
- 2010Caoimhín Mac Giolla LéithAsier Mendizabal
Exhibitions
- 12 November 2021 — 05 February 2022
- 16 November 2012 — 11 January 2013
- 25 March — 17 May 2017
- 19—27 May 2023
- 01—28 February 2023
- 04 July — 29 August 2018
News
- 6 February — 12 December 2021
GROUP SHOW: Julia Stoschek collection, Berlin
- 22 February — 26 May 2019
GROUP SHOW: CENTROCENTRO, MADRID
- 12 April — 11 November 2018
GROUP SHOW, CARRÉ D’ART-MUSÉE D’ART CONTEMPORAIN, NÎMES